Book Review ~ ‘Georgina’ by Clare Darcy

  Georgina, by Clare Darcy.  NY:  Walker and Company, 1971; NY:  Dell, 1977 [and other reprints] *********** The opening scene finds us in a house on Great Pulteney Street in Bath, where a rejected marriage proposal has all the Power family at odds – we quickly see that Miss Georgina Power is not going to [...]

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Happy Birthday Miss Austen! ~ 234 never looked so good!

[Posting this a day early - enjoy and celebrate tomorrow!] You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassy certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago:  [...]

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Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea! ~ December 6, 2009

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad….    [Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey]  You are cordially invited to    JASNA-Vermont’s  Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea !!   Sunday, 6 December 2009: 2-5 pm  featuring  Prof. Philip Baruth * (University of Vermont) “Badly Done Indeed: In Which Austen’s Mr. Knightley is Revealed [...]

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Last Chance! ‘The Importance of Being Emma’ ~ Book Giveaway

Reminder to all:  the deadline for posting comments and / or queries to author Juliet Archer to win a free copy of The Importance of Being Emma is midnight Friday September 25!  Posts to comment on: Interview with author Juliet Archer, Part 1 Interview with Ms. Archer, part 2. My review of The Importance of [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘The Importance of Being Emma’

    “You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.” “Brother and sister!  no, indeed.” [Emma, vol. III, ch. II, Chapman, p.331  ]             Juliet Archer in her Author’s  Note to The Importance [...]

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Better Late than Never – Part II: Fashion in Jane Austen’s World

Please see Kelly’s post below this for Part I – we have both been swamped these past two weeks and FINALLY getting to our respective posts on Hope Greenberg’s fabulous talk on fashion at our June 7th  JASNA-Vermont gathering …  with the beautiful backdrop of the Chapel at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a capacity crowd … First [...]

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A few tidbits…

Lady Helga at the Jane Austen Podnovel has announced that each week shall be dedicated to one of Austen’s ”golden couples” with new videos posted everyday.  She starts with Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy… And speaking of Mr. Darcy, the blog on Colin Firth has returned … see Colin Firth – An Appreciation Redux. And Laurel Ann at [...]

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